Arabic - English Dictionary طفِقَ يَطفَق، طَفَقًا وطُفوقًا
Root: ط ف قArabic English Dictionary: meaning and translation for طفِقَ يَطفَق، طَفَقًا وطُفوقًا (tfq)
Sub-Meanings / Derivatives:
طفِق يفعل كذا
بدأ في الفعل واستمرّ فيه، وهو من أفعال الشروع، يرفع المبتدأ وينصب الخبر، ويغلب على الخبر أن يكون جملة مضارعة
Translation:
To begin doing something and continue it; it is one of the verbs of inception (af'al al-shuru') which takes a subject in the nominative case and a predicate in the accusative case, where the predicate is typically a present-tense verb sentence.
Example / Citation:
- " طفِق يفعل الأمر
- {رُدُّوهَا عَلَىَّ ۖ فَطَفِقَ مَسْحًۢا بِٱلسُّوقِ وَٱلْأَعْنَاقِ}
- {وَطَفِقَا يَخْصِفَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِنْ وَرَقِ الْجَنَّةِ} "
Translation:
- "He began to do the matter
- {And he began to pass [his hand] over their legs and necks}
- {And they began to fasten together over themselves from the leaves of Paradise}."